Alexandra Tanner was born and raised in Florida and now lives in New York. She is a graduate of the M.F.A. program in fiction at The New School, and her writing has appeared in Indiana Review, Joyland, and Ninth Letter, among other journals.
During her time at MacDowell she completed work on a revision of a novel set in rural Florida. The recent recipient of a 2017-18 Emerging Writer Fellowship from the Center for Fiction, she continued to work throughout her fellowship year on a book of short stories.
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Alexandra Tanner worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In
January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in
1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles
Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire.
Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the
fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation
up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…
